Regulating the press
By: Tom O'Malley and Clive Soley.
Contributors: Soley, Clive.
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Press Council.; Freedom of the press -- Great Britain.; Journalistic ethics -- Great Britain.; Press law -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Putting the press into perspective; title: The meanings of the press; title: Working on the law : employers, journalists, and the legal framework; title: A sense of doubt : the origins and history of self-regulation up to 1972; title: Nothing resolved : self-regulation, 1972-1998; title: Organising and defining self-regulation; title: Self-regulation at work : an overview; title: The problem of accuracy in the UK press in the 1980s and 1990s; title: The distorting mirror : the problem of misrepresentation in the press in the 1980s and 1990s; title: Privacy and self-regulation; title: Rights and responsibilities : the need for reform.